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ADVISORY: ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø Board of Trustees Meeting, June 25

The ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 25, in the Timothy D. Eippert Boardroom, Suite 412, at Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus. 

Tags: University News, Organizational Sustainability, Board of Trustees

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Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel meets with the Flying Flashes Air Race Classic teams from Kent State.

Flying High: Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor tours Kent State’s Nationally Ranked College of Aeronautics and Engineering

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel recently toured ÆÞÓÑÉçÇøâ€™s College of Aeronautics and Engineering, seeing firsthand how the university is educating students for critically needed jobs in the aviation and engineering fields.

Tags: University News, Student Life, Community & Society, Kent State Works, Nationally Distinctive

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Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., Kent State executive vice president and provost, was a keynote speaker at the International Town and Gown Association conference at Kent State June 3-6, 2025

International Town and Gown Association Came to Kent State to Communicate, Collaborate and Celebrate

More than 280 people attended the 2025 ITGA City & University Relations Conference, which kicked off at the Kent Student Center ballroom on June 4. Todd Kamenash, Kent State’s associate dean of students for conduct & community engagement, chaired the ITGA conference, which had the theme Communicate, Collaborate and Celebrate.

Tags: University News, Community and Society

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Provost Melody Tankersley and Tulkin Teshabaev, president of Tashkent State University of Economics in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, sign an agreement to work on joint programs between the two universities.

Third Central Asian Nation Seeks Educational Partnership with Kent State

ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø has signed an agreement with Tashkent State University of Economics in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to begin collaboration on a joint master’s degree in economics and other programs, as Kent State continues to expand its partnerships throughout Central Asia.

Tags: University News, Global Reach, Global Presence, Office of Global Education

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Kent State Helps Celebrate Goodyear Blimp's 100th Anniversary

As the iconic Goodyear Blimp marks its 100th anniversary, ÆÞÓÑÉçÇøâ€™s connection to aviation history is soaring to new heights. Three alumni of the university’s aeronautics program are among the aviators steering this American icon through its centennial celebration.

Tags: University News, Nationally Distinctive

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Theresa Yogi of Honors College won the 2025 Distinguished Advisor Award.

Honors College Advisor Given the Distinguished Advisor Award

For all of her exemplary work, Theresa Yogi was recently awarded Kent State’s Distinguished Advising Award by University Advising and the Kent Academic Advising Support and Advising Association. Of her 13-year career, Yogi has spent seven-and-a-half years at Kent State’s Honors College.

Tags: University News, Honors College, Student Life

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Kent State administrators and faculty in 1935

IN A FLASH: Foundational Faculty

The roster of these current and former faculty assembled for Kent State's silver anniversary reads like the legend on a campus map, as so many in the 1935 photo had university buildings named for them. 

Tags: University News, faculty, Office of the University Architect, Nationally Distinctive

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Happy 115th Birthday, Kent State!

In May, ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø observes two historic institutional anniversaries, the first is of their founding as a school and the second is of the college being established as a university. 

Tags: University News, Nationally Distinctive, Community Impact, Community & Society

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Public Health online MPH top 10

Master of Public Health Online a ‘Transformative Experience’

ÆÞÓÑÉçÇøâ€™s nationally distinctive Master of Public Health (MPH) program provides students interested in continuing their public health educational journey online with several options, including the MPH with concentrations in health policy and management or social and behavioral sciences, and the STEM-designated MPH in epidemiology. The program positively impacts current graduate students and alumni in different ways.

Tags: Health, University News, Nationally Distinctive

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I Promise participant Don'Marie Reid recently graduated from Kent State and will return to attend graduate school.

Kent State Graduates in the I Promise Program Are ‘Shining Examples of Scholarship, Service and Passion’

Three students who are members of the first cohort of the LeBron James Family Foundation I Promise program graduated from Kent State during the spring 2025 commencement.

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